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Want to lose weight without having to cut back your meals?

It turns out you can trick your body into feeling full for longer simply by using a square shaped bowl, experts suggest.

So will standing up while eating rather than sitting down.

But the good news ends there for coffee lovers, as research from Oxford University suggests you shouldnt drink your morning caffeine hit with your cereal.

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Jennifer Newton, a neuroscientist from the university, said eating cereal from a square bowl increases the brainsperception of nutritionand leaves it feeling more nourished as a result.

Commissioned by cereal brand Special K, she carried out a two-day experiment following the eating patterns of 78 women.

All participants were given 30 grams of cereal, 125 milliliters of cold semi-skimmed milk and a stainless steel spoon.

Some were then given round bowls to eat their breakfast and others were given square ones.

Some were also asked to eat standing up, some sitting down, some with coffee and some without.

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The experiment controlled where they ate their breakfast, with some women eating in a noisy area and others eating in a calm atmosphere.

When theyd finished, they were asked to fill out questionnaires about how nourished they felt, how the cereal tasted and how it had affected their mood.

Participants who consumed cereal from a round shaped bowl found it less nutritious than those eating from a square shaped bowl," Newson said. The interviews conducted with the women who took part in the experiment suggest many of us eat with our eyes, because the cereal looked more appetising in a square shaped bowl the women found it more nutritious.

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More than ever, people areeating on the go, and we found that eating standing up actually increased how wholesome people thought the cereal was.

Based on new evidence it could be argued that when were not sitting down at a breakfast table, our brains perception of nutrition is higher.

The research also concluded that the more nutritious a person thinks his or her cereal is, the tastier they find it.

Those who found theircereal nutritious and tastyreported feeling happier and more energized after breakfast.

And drinking coffee can actually make you think your breakfast is less tasty.

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Newson said: This could be due to multisensory interactions between the different olfactory and taste sensations affecting the nutritional perception, or more indirectly through learned associations that we have attached to drinks like coffee.

The experiment highlights how the perception of nutrition, like many other aspects of human perception, is a flexible concept at the level of the brain.

A judgement that is not just based on the cereal itself, but also according to whats going on in your surroundings, your internal state of mind, and what else you are doing.

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TV personality Katie Piper was one of the women who took part in the experiment.

She said: Whilst I think a lot about what Im eating for breakfast, I dont really think about how I eat it.

Taking part in this experiment made me realize I should take more time to mindfully eat my morning bowl of cereal, so my brain realizes Ive had a nutritious breakfast and Im ready to tackle the day ahead.

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Special K nutritionist Alexa Hoyland said: Women are more conscious of nutrition than ever before, but not enough women are thinking about how they eat may affect how they feel about their food.

Its interesting that during this experiment women ate the same nutritious cereal but their perception of this changes depending on the circumstances in which they were eating it.

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12 Easy Foods Swaps That Will Help You Lose Weight Men's Health Feelings of deprivation can derail even someone with the best weight loss intentions. In the long run, small changes will lead up to big results. And one of the best first steps to get to those results? Switch from processed to whole foods, suggests ...

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Its true, I can help you to lose weight for free. Ive been trying to do that for 3 years when I started writing this blog in April 2014. In that time Ive received comments and emails that lead me to believe Ive helped a lot of folks.

Ive also received emails and comments that accuse me of being self-serving. You work forWeight Watchers. You only want people to join Weight Watchers.

Well, yeah, I do work for Weight Watchers and if somebody is inclined to pay for help to lose weight, then I absolutely hope its Weight Watchers they chose. Thats what I chose when I wanted professional help because I believed and still do believe its the best commercial weight loss service there is.

US News and World Report ranks Weight Watchers #1

My before picture snapped by my 9-year-old daughter, June 1990. I didnt want to wear a bathing suit, but I felt good about myself as a mother. Im a great mother and its okay to say so.

Now that Ive been working for Weight Watchers for 26 years and know a lot more about nutrition science, exercise physiology, the psychology of change, and human weight management Im more convinced than ever. So readers of my blog can benefit from my personal experience and knowledge and need not ever pay me a cent.

Now that thats out of the way, lets get some weight off you. My first question Ill need answered to evaluate your chance of success is to ask you, why do you want to lose weight?

All of these are good reasons for wanting to lose weight, but some of them are better. The better ones are the ones that suggest you want to move towards something positive such as dating, health, or wanting to look and feel good.

The ones that are good, but not as good, are the ones that are trying to get away from a painful or uncomfortable feeling such as losing weight to shut up the fat shamers, to please a spouse, because youre uncomfortable about your weight or you just dont feel good about yourself.

Any one of those reasons is yourWHY. The whys that are moving away from pain are good to get started but not as effective to take you through the whole journey. Thats because you may only need to lose a fraction of the weight you want to lose to get to goal before yourwhy isnt motivational anymore.

Whats more important about yourwhyis the last one on the list which is to feel better about yourself. Not feeling good about yourself stops more successful weight loss attempts than supports them. The better you feel about yourself the greater your chances are of reaching your goal.

The reason is simple. If you dont feel good about yourself, your self talk is disparaging and overwhelmingly negative. You beatyourself up for every mistake real or perceived you might make. You give yourself negative messages about everything from how smart you are, to how strong you are, to how much willpower you have. Rather than support yourself with empowering beliefs your mind searches forthe ways in which you couldfail in any circumstance.

The first thing I want you to do before you even start making changes to your eating behaviors is to separate who you are from what you weigh. Make a list of all your great qualities. Its okay to say what makes you great even though it may feel wrong and boastful at first. Youre smart and its okay to say so.

I was smart and articulate before I lost weight, but what I learned during the process of losing weight and maintaining my loss gave me confidence to share my knowledge on Maine news broadcasts.

Recognize your intelligence, accomplishments, compassion, empathy, all your roles, be they daughter, son, mother, grandmother, father, grandfather, sister, brother, teacher, manager, etc. You wear a lot of hats and you wear them well. Thats who you are and you can feel good about being that person.

What you weigh should never be a reason not to feel good about yourself. You are not what you weigh, youre who you are. You are awesome at any weight.

The better you feel about yourself, the more success youll have with your weight related goals.

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Diana Johnston and Dana Smith will have something extra special to celebrate on Mothers Day: The mom and daughter have lost 110 pounds together.

Each woman is 55 pounds lighter after Smith started a quest to lose weight last summer and Johnston joined her last fall.

My mom kept seeing my weight come off and it just kept coming off and pretty soon, she was not having it and she jumped [on board], Smith, 41, who lives in Everett, Washington, told TODAY.

I was just so unhappy with myself and the weight. My knees hurt, everything hurt. I cant believe how much better I feel. Just amazing, Johnston, 65, who lives near her daughter, added.

The women, who are both 5 feet 7, said their weight gain started after they began having children. Smith reached 230 pounds after hectic mornings with her kids meant shed skip breakfast, then end up on the couch and gorge on food because she was so hungry. She doesnt eat meat, so shed overload on carbs like pasta, chips and cereal.

Meanwhile Johnston reached 265 pounds, blaming her sweet tooth on the gain. She was bad (sugar) was her thing, Smith said, recalling that her parents could buy a whole party-size cake and eat the whole thing over a couple of days.

Dana Smith's weight reached 230 pounds.

Last July, Smith was fed up with being overweight and out of shape. Her husband loves hiking, but she was unable to keep up and embarrassed to show him she was out of breath. She bought a Fitbit, started hiking with her kids and began focusing on portion control. Today, shes a pro on the trail.

I just fell in love with hiking. Its one of the things were doing as a family now its a reward, its really cool to be able to do that and not be out of breath and dying, she said.

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Johnston was inspired watching her daughter get fitter and slimmer. But as she visited her grandkids, she noticed Smith wasnt asking her to take them anywhere because she knew it would be too hard for her mom with the extra weight.

Diana Johnston, far right, was motivated to lose weight after looking at pictures of herself at her son's wedding: "I was appalled at how big I was," she said.

I wasnt able to participate and I decided I cant do that. Im only 65, Im not old. I dont want to be an old cripple sitting in a chair, unable to get out of it, Johnston said. I just decided thats it.

With the two women encouraging each other, the quest to slim down became easier. Heres how they lost the weight:

Johnston and Smith simply started eating smaller amounts and decided to stop eating as soon as they felt full. Paying attention to calories matters: Go for half a burger, instead of the whole thing. Limit yourself to one ladle of chili.

We still eat things that we want to eat, we just eat less of them, Smith said. My husband will still make us pizzas, but hell make us little tiny, skinny ones.

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The mom and daughter have lost 55 pounds each in eight months.

Johnston, who always had that big sweet tooth, gradually began letting go of sweets. Now, shes cut most sugar out of her diet and says she doesnt miss it: The cravings just stopped.

I just dont have that desire for it, she said. I feel so much better, now I love shopping for clothes. I look better, I feel better, Im happier it just changes everything.

Smith was impressed: I would have never thought she would have given up sweets.

At one point, Johnston complained that she wasnt losing weight. She told Smith was only eating a couple of pretzels, but then realized she was probably eating five handfuls of them.

The lesson: If you want some pretzels, count out seven or eight, take them out of the bag and then put the bag away. If the bag is open, youre going to reach in it again, Smith warned.

Johnston, second from left, says her knee pain is gone after losing weight. Smith, right, now enjoys hiking.

Smith, who used to always skip breakfast, now makes sure she doesnt leave the house without a good morning meal.

For Johnston, the big rule is eating nothing after 7 p.m.: I go to bed and Im kind of hungry and thats good.

Besides hiking, Smith has been exercising at home Monday through Thursday with 30-minute workouts on DVDs. Johnston doesnt like to exercise, but she aims to take at least 10,000 steps a day, whether through walking or marching in place.

You could just see the light come back when her knee pain started going away, Smith said. Something as simple as moving and losing some weight can

Make so much difference, Johnston finished the sentence.

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You may not recognize John Mackeys name, but you definitely know his business. Mackey is the founder and CEO of healthy supermarket chain Whole Foods Market, and he has a new book out called The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longetivity . In his book, Mackey details how he became a healthy eater after growing up eating junk food, and the vegan diet he says revolutionized his life.

In a new interview with NBC News about his book, Mackey says he became a vegetarian in his 20s, but started eating fish when he dated a woman who wasnt a vegetarian. And gradually, over time, I was starting to gain weight, he says. My biometric measurements were not as good as they used to be. I was getting older. I just thought, Oh, this is coming with age.

But Mackey says his health began to improve almost immediately after he adopted a vegan diet. I started losing weight and I felt better, he says. After a year, his health plateaued so he cut out sugary and highly refined foods as well. When I stopped eating all those processed foods and combined that with a plant-based diet, my health was just amazing, he says. I weigh the same as I weighed when I was 18 years oldIm an extremely healthy person now.

Mackey points out that he went from being a kid who wouldnt eat vegetables to teaching himself to love every single vegetable out thereand he urges people to try to do the same. You can teach yourself to enjoy any type of food , so why not teach yourself to love the healthiest foods in the world? he says. When you combine the things our body naturally craveswhole starch foods (sweet potatoes, brown rice, beans, etc.) with fruits and vegetablesyou can eat all you want and you'll lose weight.

Experts say that while people can lose weight on a vegan diet, it's not a guarantee. (Also, not that gaining weight is inherently a bad thing, but eating all you wanteven if it's healthycan still affect how much you weigh).

If your goal is to lose weight, the process involves many more aspects than just what you eat and whether you follow a plant-based diet . Sure, exercise is a factor, too, but so many other things come into play. Components like stress and sleep, along with things you can't fully control, like health conditions and hormonal fluctuations, can play a big role in your weight as well.

Many studies have shown that veganism is associated with a lower weight, Fatima Cody Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., instructor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, tells SELF.

For example, a cross-sectional study of more than 70,000 people published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2013 found that vegans had the lowest BMI of people with different dietary habits (ranging from non-vegetarian to vegan), even though everyone ate the same amount of daily calories. And a meta-analysis published in the journal Nutrients in 2014 looked at over 100,000 study participants and found that vegan diets are linked to a lower risk of developing obesity (as well as hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease). Another meta-analysis published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2015 discovered that people on a vegetarian dietespecially those on a vegan dietsaw better weight-loss results than dieters on other eating plans. Of the more than 1,000 people who followed a specific diet for nine to 74 weeks, vegans on average lost about 5.5 more pounds than non-vegetarian dieters (vegetarians lost about three pounds more than those on a diet that included meat).

Sonya Angelone, R.D., a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, tells SELF that veganism can cause weight loss simply because its a form of food restriction. Anything that restricts food, even temporarily, can promote weight loss in the short term, she says. Certified dietitian-nutritionist Lisa Moskovitz, R.D., CEO of NY Nutrition Group , agrees. When most people think of veganism, they think of eating strictly veggies and cutting out high-fat animal foods like cheese, burgers, and bacon, she says. Naturally when you eliminate fatty animal foods, you may notice weight loss due to less calorie intake, and of course, animal fat is typically artery-clogging fat, which is not recommended .

Although there aren't as many processed vegan foods as non-vegan ones, they're still out there. Plenty of foods like chips, non-dairy ice cream, and cookies may fall into the vegan category but still not be healthy , Angelone says. As a result, a person may end up eating a diet thats technically vegan, but high in sugar, carbohydrates, and calories. The limited category of things vegans can eat can lead to nutrient deficiencies, Angelone says, so vegans need to be careful to get enough calcium, iron, vitamin B12, zinc, and omega-3 fats.

Vegans also may deal with cravings and have to work harder to be satiated, potentially leading to eating more than they used to. It can be even harder to keep portions and calories in check when eating a strict vegan diet because, by eliminating good quality sources of protein like eggs, fish, dairy, and organic lean meats, it can be harder to stay full and keep cravings in check, Moskovitz says. That's why she recommends vegans focus on consuming more protein-rich foods such as beans, lentils, quinoa, soybeans, or tofu, on a daily basis.

Of course, there are many vegans who eat nutritiously with no problems, but being healthy while vegan can actually be pretty hard work. Luckily, you don't have to go vegan to reap the benefits of a plant-based diet. If you want to go vegan because you truly believe in the lifestyle, have at it. But if you're considering striking foods you love from your life and going vegan just in an effort to lose weight, it's absolutely not necessary. If you'd like to eat a healthier dietwhether weight loss is a goal of yours or notStanford says its important to make sure youre incorporating lean protein, vegetables , whole grains, and fruits into your diet. It is also important to realize that the less processed a diet the healthier it is overall, she says.

It's also important to remember that undertaking a diet that's too restrictive for you can lead to dangerous bingeing and yo-yo dieting , which over time can contribute to problems with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

That's why it's key to figure out how to fuel your body and mind in a way that's safe and realistic for you. There is no one strategy that is universally effective in helping people to achieve a healthy weight, Stanford says. And, of course, if youre struggling to find a diet that works for you, seek out a certified dietitianhe or she can help guide you toward an eating plan that best suits your needs.

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Online weight loss plans are web-based fitness programs designed to help participants lose weight. These may include assistance in the areas necessary for weight loss such as goal setting, progress tracking, meal and workout planning and personal support from personal trainers or fitness coaches.

Online weight loss plans are usually interactive programs that provide the user with diet information, workout routines, meal planning, goal tracking, and feedback. Web-based programs usually attempt to incorporate all of these areas and customize them for a particular user. The user will usually fill out a questionnaire before proceeding. The questionnaire will contain information such as current eating patterns, fitness levels and goals.

A personalized meal plan and workout program are usually created for the user. One feature of these programs is the use of online tools to track improvements, and to log workout and diet information. The idea behind these tracking tools is that by tracking fitness, a person can make more progress by aiming for and meeting regular fitness goals. Programs range in price from the very basic, to highly customized programs created by celebrity fitness experts. There are also free web-based programs. While they usually provide access to online tools, they may not provide any customized plans.

Online weight loss plans usually contain some of these elements:

In a year-long study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, participants of an online weight loss plan lost more than twice the weight of participants who took part in a more traditional program. It has been shown that people who have used online weight loss plans for 18 months were able to maintain significant weight loss.[1] Many studies now show that Internet programs are viable tools to help people maintain weight loss over the long term. In one study, a group of 250 people lost weight over a six-month period and maintained weight loss for 12 months afterwards using an online weight loss plan.[2] The low cost combined with the lack of need for face-to-face meetings with a nutritionist or personal trainer make Internet programs easy to maintain long-term loss. The requirement of constantly updating weight and other measurements helps to hold the user accountable as well. This could help people maintain weight loss over a long period. Many studies even show that participants that logged into their online programs more also experienced, on average, more weight loss. There has been an upsurge of companies specifically dealing with only online weight loss. There has recently been research into the effectiveness of web-based weight loss programs in primary care settings.[3]

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The question

Fasting has gained some popularity as a weight-loss tactic, generally practiced intermittently or on alternate days. But is it a viable alternative to the standard method of restricting calories consumed daily?

This study

The study included 100 adults, more women than men, who averaged 44 years old, were obese and relatively sedentary. They were randomly assigned to one of three groups: For six months, one group restricted daily calorie consumption to 75 percent of their normal amount. A second group fasted on alternate days by consuming only 25 percent of their normal amount of calories on those days and consumed extra calories (125 percent of normal) on the other days (which were called feast days). The third group made no changes to their normal eating pattern. For the next six months, the goal for all participants was to maintain their weight where it was at the end of the first six months. Throughout the study, participants were asked to not change their daily physical activity habits. After a year, weight loss was essentially the same 5 to 6 percent, on average for the group that restricted calories daily and the group that fasted on alternate days. Those who did not change their eating habits recorded, on average, a slight gain. More people dropped out of the study from the fasting group than from the daily-calorie-restriction group (38 percent vs. 29 percent), primarily citing trouble adhering to the fasting regimen.

Who may be affected?

People trying to lose weight. More than 70 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese, which can contribute to a number of health problems. Excess weight has been shown to play a role in such diseases as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and some types of cancer. Although a plethora of weight-loss programs and methods exist, plans with long-term success rates tend to be those in which participants take in fewer calories and burn more through physical activity.

Caveats

All participants were obese; whether the weight-loss methods would have the same effect on other people was not tested. Some of the eating data came from records kept by the participants. The weight-maintenance period was relatively short. Participants were provided with food for all their meals for the first six months and then met weekly with a dietitian or nutritionist to learn how to continue the eating plan on their own.

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Online in JAMA Internal Medicine (jamainternalmedicine.com; click New Online).

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Information on choosing a weight-loss program can be found at niddk.nih.gov (search for choosing weight loss). Learn more about the effects of weight on health at cdc.gov (search for healthy weight).

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Extending NHS weight loss programmes from one session per week for 12-weeks to one session per week for a year helped people who are overweight to lose more weight and keep it off for longer, according to a study published in The Lancet, and led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool and University of Oxford.

Although upfront costs for the longer programme are higher, the study estimates that offering more sessions would be cost-effective to the NHS in the long-term because it would help to prevent more people from developing diseases as a result of their weight.

"This trial provides important data that offering support to lose weight by referring people to a community weight loss group is more successful than a self-help approach, and that providing classes for longer helps people keep weight off for longer," says Professor Susan Jebb, senior author of the study from University of Oxford. "Our results also show that, in the long-term, weight loss groups are cost-effective for society as a whole because they are likely to reduce future healthcare expenditure by preventing costly conditions such as diabetes and coronary heart disease."

The NHS currently refers people who are obese to 12-week long weight loss programmes run by commercial groups and provides vouchers for free attendance. These are among the most commonly commissioned programmes to treat obesity in the UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that programmes last at least 12 weeks. However, there is little evidence to suggest how long these programmes should last to be most effective.

The new study involves 1,267 participants with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 or above and compares the effectiveness of a 12-week and a year-long programme of free Weight Watchers sessions to one-off advice together with a self-help booklet.

After a year, those given the self-help booklet had lost 3.3kg, those referred to the 12-week programme had lost 4.8 kg, and those referred to the year-long programme had lost 6.8kg on average. Two years after they began treatment, participants in all groups regained some weight but all groups were still lighter on average than at the start of treatment. The self-help group were 2.3kg lighter, the 12-week programme were 3.0kg lighter, while the group offered a one-year programme were 4.3kg lighter.

Compared to participants in the other groups, those in the year-long programme also had significantly greater reductions in fasting blood glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin, which are important markers of the risk of developing diabetes. After a year, those on the year-long programme saw their blood glucose level reduce by 0.54mmol per litre of blood (compared to reductions of 0.27mmol/litre for the 12-week group and 0.11mmol/litre for the self-help group).

The researchers also modelled the impact of the three programmes over the next 25 years to predict how many people would develop different weight-related illnesses. They also estimated the impact of the programmes on quality of life, the cost of providing the programmes, as well as cost-savings to health services from preventing future diseases.

The 12-week programme was predicted to prevent more illnesses than the self-help intervention due to greater weight loss. Over 25 years, the cost to the NHS of providing the programme would be more than offset by the later savings as a result of reductions in disease, making it overall cost-saving.

Offering a year-long programme was estimated to prevent an additional 1,786 cases of disease (including 642 fewer cases of hypertension, 373 fewer cases of diabetes and 104 fewer cases of heart disease) for every 100,000 people, compared to the 12-week programme. So, although it was more expensive upfront, the study shows that the year-long programme is cost-effective over 25 years by preventing more cases of weight related illness.

"We've seen before that a 12-week programme can help people lose weight, but for the first time we've shown that extending this to a full year leads to greater weight loss over a longer period and a lower risk of diabetes," says lead author Dr Amy Ahern from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at The University of Cambridge.

"Although the initial costs of the year-long programme are greater, it's very likely that it will be good value for money over the long term because of the reduction in weight-related illnesses. The results from the one-year programme are comparable to what has been seen in previous trials that used much more costly interventions, usually involving multiple contacts with health professionals."

Professor Jebb adds: "We know that many local authorities are questioning how best to spend their limited budgets. We have shown that the longer programmes bring greater benefits, with only modest extra costs. But at a time when some areas are reducing their expenditure on obesity treatment, the first step is to ensure that people who want help to lose weight have access to at least a standard 12-week weight loss programme, which we have shown is likely to be cost-saving for the NHS."

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We had 10 ladies attend our meeting this week. Shirley was our biggest loser with 3.4 pounds lost this week. Keep up the great work Shirley. We had a net loss of 6 pounds this week. Doing great ladies!

Our Yes-Yes for the week is to eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away.

Our program was on Nutrition Myths Debunked. Examples of weight loss myths are Fad diets work, skipping meals help promote weight loss, carbohydrates are fattening, eating at night will cause weight loss, and eating less than 1,000 calories will help lose weight for good. Reality checks proved these to be myths.

Our leaders challenge this coming week is become a diet myth sleuth. Identify any advertisement that seems too good to be true. This can be from a magazine, television, the internet, etc. Make a list of reasons why the diet advertised will not work in the long term. Then, identify healthy ways to lose weight. Weight loss takes hard work and motivation.

The two-bit jar weekly contest was won by Laura.

We started our May Flower contest tonight. We receive a flower petal for every half-pound we lose. Who will get their flowerpot full of flowers first? Lets go girls.

We are preparing for State Recognition Day in Tulsa May 4-6, at the Southern Hills Marriott on 71st Street. We will meet at Cornerstone Tabernacle to carpool to Tulsa.

We would love to get to know you. You are welcome to join us in getting healthy by contacting Billie at 918-489-2155 or Shirley at 918-571-3353. Or, drop in on Thursday evenings at the Cornerstone Tabernacle at 401 W. 8th St., Gore. We meet from 5 to 7 p.m. Looking forward to meeting you. Billie.

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